A recent Taliban hit list named 15 journalists, including my father and TV anchor Raza Rumi. On Friday, assassins came after Rumi.

On Friday, Raza Rumi, a well-known TV anchor on Pakistan's Express News, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the center of Lahore. His driver, shot 11 times by two gunmen, died at the hospital.

Raza, a friend, had just left the television studio when two men on a motorcycle rode up next to his car, unleashing a...